A Dissertation by GRACE HUI-CHIN LIN Submitted to the Office of ...

“Dachshund 臘腸狗.” I said, “Its legs are shorter, and it has a longer body.” I
believed when I had a low proficiency, I should use a lot of “generalization.”
It would be clearer if I used “generalization” with “paragraph.”
In the second interview, Sung Ru addressed that she would work out interlanguage
privately so she would not lose face:
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I would use interlanguage in the private circumstances instead of in the public.
I did not perceive losing face if I talked to my good friends or some
acquaintances with interlanguage. They knew my language and cultural
background, so they did not detect that my language was strange. However, I
would avoid using them in the public where people might expect to hear more
standard English.
Sung Ru used her imagination to describe how she perceived interlanguage in her
second interview:
As to my perception about the restructuring skill in interlanguage, it was like
encountering a road block on the way home, so I had to make a detour. It took
more time for me to reach my destination; however, I was able to find a way
to go home. The block was the challenging vocabulary and the detour was the
dialogues for explaining the difficult words.
Sung Ru described how she perceived generation and “word coinage” in the
interlanguage interview: